Cream-Faced Loons

Richard III (ish)

★★★★★

Covering the second longest Shakespearean play in a family friendly way, in under an hour, and with just one person performing all the parts is bordering on absurd. But only bordering, because Cream-Faced Loons proved that not only can this be done, it can be done brilliantly.

The premise of the show is that the Cream-Faced Loons are due to perform an extravagant version of Richard III (even acrobats were mentioned at one point!). There’s just one, pretty significant, problem; the van with the actors in has broken down so they can’t reach the venue. In a bid to give people a show though, Stagehand (Abey Bradbury) decides to try and tell Shakespeare’s classic machiavellian tale single handedly. With a mixture of props, music, an insult generator, and a fair bit of audience interaction, Richard III is performed. Ish.